The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-02-18

She had sometimes wondered at the
last clause of the petition; she felt it's
force now; the terror of Sudden
death" laid hold on her. "0h! if ever
she reached her California home in
safety, she would never tempt a rail
way~again! What If there had been
an accident TO the cars, and she had
seen Molly crushed to death and could
not lift q hand to save her?
She cIasped the child so closely at
that horrid thought that she
cried out in her sleep. Mary
hushed her, and tried to con-
troll her thoughts. She endeavored
to recall the consultations of her earn
est religious faith; but the words even
en- of Scripture fell ~lifeless on her mem
DRY. Poor human nature is so weak,
both in mind and body, that a blow
~staggers it and shakes even the foun-
dations. She was stunned, hurt, des-
perate; neither submission nor indig-
nation came ather call; she could only
whisper q helpless, vague appeal to
God, like
Children crying in the night
And with no Language but acry.
Presently Molly woke up, cross, hot
and quite intractable enough to
occupy her mother for tt =
next half hour in soothing Ter
fretful temper, washing the warmface
and hands, smoothing the damp curls,
and beguiling her sorrows with O. red
apple from the lunch counter.
Then after q little while, the window
I nf khn 4SoIrnE @Enn 1nannI MoY.u
bought her ticket to L., dropped a
dollar into the station maids hand,
who received it with an astonished
stare, and q grim ''Thankye," and
then grasping little Molly's hand went
out into the fresh air and paced the
platform till the porter shouted:
western Express! Passengers for
the Eastern, all aboard"
Once homeward bound, it seemed as
if her grief and terror were renewed.
Molly slept; but in spite of all her eff,
forts, Mary could not help recalling
the last thing her eyes saw before she
tainted, and her soul covered before
what she must meet now.
The road seemed interminable; there
was q delay at one station waiting, for
a freight train had jumped the track
in the morning, and was neither of
nor on as yet, and that delay involved
another further on, when al excursion
party of railway directors and their
friends were due and had the right oil
way. 1t was dark when Mary reached
L-but she took the first car.
riage that offered, and lift,
ing in sleepy Molly, torn her
self by conflicting emotions of grief,
dread and anxiety, she at last arrived
at her fathers door.
She paid the driver hurriedly; and
with Molly in her arms rushed in at
the front door, which happened to be
unlocked. A bright light streamed
from the glass door of the dining-room
at the end of the hall. Breathless,
painting. pale as a sheet, and with a
face of woe, she flung open the door
dropped Molly from her grasp, and,
with a wild shrek flung herself into
her mothers arms. Yes, there was
that deplored Mother, stout. hearty,
uniniured in life or limb, Just rising
from the dessert that fingered on the
dinner table, to see who came in at the
front door in that eager, familiar fash,
ion; and there sat her placid father,
with the remainder of a big pear on
his plate, his eyes wide open, his
mouth agape, struck dumb by her en-
trance, for he had just said:
II hope Mary has got to c. by this
time, and taken her section in the
sleeper. / telegraphed themto reserve
a whole section; she will be SO mu:cs
-, -, ~oe@-AoL LIZ ~w,s&IE MAIL - @.H.n..
And here she was! weary. weeping,
pallid and almost ~hysterical.
"Why, Mary Dutton!" exclaimed
her mother after Mary had sobbed
out her piteous story.
"Why | never in the world thought
you was looking out, or I'd have tele,
graphed to the train. You see that
other engine was very near, and I'd
got my eyes sort of duh with crying,
and for a minute | stood still to get
my balance, that coupling of the cars
shook me so, you know. Then / saw
the engine begin to come, and | start.
ed across; it was foolish, but there
was time enough, only my cloak had
got unbottoned at the top and slip,
ped back, so it vas caught in a
splinter Oh UHe emu Oh " Ul6, dnQ
that sort ofhindered me. stumbled,
a woman screamed, for fear ] was
going to fall; but / didn't. ! caught
myself up, the cloak tore off my back
and fell down; for in the pull the 9th.
er button went, and | got over the
other rail only just in time, and then
/ fell, but not to hurt me, for a man
had run forward to get me off the
track, and / fell right against him,
There's the cloak, pretty well run
over"
Mary turned The torn and dusty